Tariffs Spark Shift to Open Source
Tariffs Spark Shift to Open Source
This new era of tariffs and retaliatory measures may ripple through the tech sector and accelerate interest in open-source alternatives like openSUSE. Busine...
The European Commission sees open-source software as more than an IT tool. Policy makers are encouraging open-source ecosystems to drive innovation, autonomy and collaboration in a world where global trade is being redrawn.
This trade dispute highlights something most open-source advocates have known for years: open source is freedom. It’s freedom from monopolies, freedom from arbitrary pricing, and freedom from foreign influence.
I hope that’s the case. In the early 2000’s there were so many stories of institutional migrations to FOSS that I thought we’d be done by now!
The Upgrde to Freedom campaign mentioned seems to be a SUSE initiative, or at least I can’t find mention of it elsewhere. https://news.opensuse.org/category/upgrade-to-freedom/
The only major ongoing initiative I know of is the one from the german federal state Schleswig-Holstein. At least they are pulling through.
@cyberblob @cm0002 Unfortunately Europe is a lot of talk and very little action.